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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1941
Page
4
Notice states second class mailing at Polk Nebraska Post Office dated March 21 1907 under act of Congress March 2 1879 with annual subscription of 1 50 dollars.
Want Ads rates listed 10c per line for first insertion and 5c per line for each additional insertion. Includes items such as a 1937 John Deere Model B tractor, sheep clipping gear, Russian green seed oats, electric brood, big 5 flour, Spartan seed barley, and paper subscriptions. Contact details include P. T. Wurtz & Son Polk Roy Neary Winside and Central Electric Hatchery Polk phone 63.
About fifteen friends gathered Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. Oscar Strand's birthday anniversary. Lunch was served by the guests. Other local notes include J. E. MacDaniel's Osage trip, Stouffer selling a Barrowville farm for 9550 per acre, and evangelistic meetings to begin in Chapman.
Cattle market notes from Union Stock Yards Omaha record receipts and steady to lower prices for various cattle types. Prominent film news highlights Darryl F Zanuck and John Ford bringing Tobacco Road to the screen with Nunnally Johnson scripting, a three day Sun Theatre engagement starting April 6 in York.
The San Pedro aquarium in California displays crabs and blush pink fish, predators that hunt other fish, sea stars that shed and regrow limbs, and pistol shrimps that snap claws loudly. The exhibit emphasizes unusual marine adaptations and behaviors.
Local church listings outline worship times and events across multiple denominations including Lutheran Baptist Evangelical Free and Methodist in Hordville region. Details cover service hours Sunday school choir practices prayer meetings and an Easter cantata at the high school auditorium with pre Easter services planned.
A compressed snapshot recounts events from April 1 1926 including Polk Motor Co selling sedans to Wm Willer Lloyd Hahmand and Hartley Hahn, a March 24 1926 wedding of Ruth Sidwell and Kenneth Samuels, Susan Sleezer funeral, J C Fleming hospitalized for gangrene, August Nelson returning from Knoxville after his father Ole C Nelson’s death, and Titan Manufacturing Co. plans with Martin Jones visiting from Fremont.
Mrs. RE D. Madison spends part of the week with her daughter Mrs. Roger Hill and family in Red Cloud. The visit highlights the local family gathering and social ties in the community.
A compact price list shows Pint at 13 cents and Dede items at 21 cents 9 cents and 15 cents respectively suggesting a local shop or event price sheet with multiple small item costs.
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